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There are ample examples from literature (Woolf, Proust, Plath) and fascinating historical tabloid cases of extreme hysteria and so-called madness.
Why are we so obsessed with tabloid cases of dramatic rise and fall?
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His overarching theory, one he pushes lightly and sometimes lightheartedly, is that tabloid murder cases possess actual significance, that we can learn something about American history by the kinds of murders that interest each generation.
But he has made it the basis for "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion," a novel that separates the mawkish tabloid murder case from its later, tougher incarnations.
While he may not win any popularity contests – "a lot of us cringe at the stuff he writes," says one colleague at the Melbourne tabloid – the case has caused dismay, even among his detractors.
In many cases tabloid newspapers published stories identifying men or women who were subsequently disowned by their family or assaulted in the street.
He was eager, however, for the spotlight, trying to interest a tabloid in one case.
OF TABLOID IN HACKING CASE A lawyer representing 51 people who say they were victims of phone hacking and press intrusion told a hearing that his clients and their families had been followed, spied on, threatened, harassed, vilified, blackmailed and driven to suicide attempts by a British tabloid run amok.
Rangel, for instance, is a former musician who once played in the band of the cheesy cumbia singer Rigo Tovar and still has a weak spot for bad pop music; another amusing recurring device is Mr. Solares's invention of the lurid headlines that appear in the Mexican tabloids covering the cases.
Hunsecker's tabloid — which, in case there was any doubt as to the true identity of the character, resembles the New York Daily Mirror — seems to stretch out to infinity, duplicating over and over again the name-dropping snippets of his column's flip lingo: "Marilyn Monrooooohhhh... Miss Blondiful... sexploitation points".
Since last October, the jury have been given an eye-opening taste of life inside the world of cut-throat tabloids, hearing about cases of bullying, lying, the payment of huge sums for salacious stories, and how one journalist even threatened a colleague with a replica gun.
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